Able Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with…

— Jacques Lacan

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems”

— Dean Koontz

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

— John Katzenbach

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

— Alexander Cannon

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

— Woody Allen

“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time, concern over…

— Theodore Dalrymple

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

— Nora Ephron

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because…

— Judith Viorst

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

— Sigmund Freud

Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever…

— Peter Medawar

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

— CS Lewis